Frederick wikowsky



F. WIKOWSKY.

METHOD OF TIGHTENING WIRES- APPLICATION FILED MAY 10, I919.

1,320,949. Patented Nov. 4,1919.

FREDERICK WIKOWSKY, F COOKSVILLE, ILLINOIS.

METHOD OF TIGHTENING- WIRES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 4, 1919.

Application filed May 10,1919. Serial No. 296,186.

' Tio-htcnin Wires of which the followin is \D b 7 b a specification.

My invention relates to an improved method of tightening wires, and theobject is to stretch the wire and to splice it and hold it in itstightened adjustment.

This invention embraces the steps by which the wire is stretched orspliced, as Well as the means for accomplishing it.

I n the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a view of a device forstretching the wire;

Fig. 2 is a view showing mechanism that may be used when the ends of thewire are broken;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail partly in sectionrFig. t is a view showingbroken ends of a barb wire after being repaired.

A, represents a frame, preferably U or V- shaped with an orifice 1through the center, and having rollers at the ends, the rollers adaptedto receive and bearnpon the wire to be stretched, or the chainconnecting the ends of the wire, as shown in Figs..1 and 2. The orificereceives a rod 3 having a hook 4 on one end adapted to receive the wireor chain, and the opposite end threaded to receive the T or L-shapedwrench 5, which is internally screw-threaded to turn upon the threads ofthe hook rod to draw the same through the frame and apply tension to thewire or chain.

The wire is indicated by the numeral 6, and the chain by 7, the chainbeing used only when the wire has become broken, and

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe is unnecessary when the wire is simply slack and needs tighteningand is not broken.

The method consists in applying this tension until the wire is tight,either through the wire directly as in Fig. 1, or through a chainconnecting the ends of the broken wlre, as in Fig. 2. In splicing, thesplicing is done by a wire 9 made in two strands and bent around thewire to be stretched; it it happens to be barbed, preferably back of thebarbs to assist in. holding the splice tight, and after it is thusfastened and while the main wire being stretched is under tension, aspike or rod is inserted between the centers of the two strands of thesplice wire and twisted until the same is tight, as shown in Fig. 3.

In this way by very simple means and method I am enabled to quicklystretch and tighten the wire of a fence, and to fasten it securely inits tightened condition, whether this be at some point in the middle ofa fence or at the broken ends.

An advantage of the splice is that after the wire is once stretched inthis way and tension applied, additional tension can be applied to thesplice at any time by inserting a spike or tool and giving it a fewadded twists.

I claim:

The improved method of wire stretching which consists in applying aframe at two points to a wire or wires to be stretched and applyinglateral strain between said points, attaching a two-stranded wire orwires to the wire stretched at two points, and finally twisting thesestrands together to maintain the tension upon the wire or wiresstretched. In testimony whereof I ailix my signature.

FREDERICK IVIKOIVSKY.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.

